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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

Mar 2, 2022

02:02:32

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The Story Gives the Meaning

03:54

You Are Not Going to Stop Caring What Other People Think About You

03:21

The Study of Story Telling

05:27

Introduction

4min

The Study of Story Telling

5min

The Science of Story Telling

5min

Is Story a Tool for Living?

2min

What Is Science Fiction to You?

2min

Is Story the Language of the Brain?

2min

What Gets Us Out of Bed in the Morning?

4min

The Story of the Northriter

1min

Is There Evidence of the Supernatural?

5min

10.

I Don't Understand This Argument

4min

11.

I'm Still Convinced

3min

12.

The Range of Stories

3min

13.

The Clash of Three Stories in Humanity

5min

14.

Religion Has Fail, Science Hasn't Fail

2min

15.

The Story Telling Brain

2min

16.

The Three Status Games of Human Life

4min

17.

Is There a Story?

3min

18.

The Success Game Is Not a Success Game

4min

19.

The Story Brain

2min

20.

Isn't That Good Criteria for Claiming Status a Ta?

4min

21.

Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Weapons

2min

22.

The Story Gives the Meaning

4min

23.

The Most Weapon of Mass Destruction Is the Humiliated Leader

2min

24.

The Mind Is a Story Teller

2min

25.

The Story of Humiliation

6min

26.

You Are Not Going to Stop Caring What Other People Think About You

3min

27.

The Connection Between Story and Technology

2min

28.

The Story of the Selfy Camera

4min

29.

How Do We Consume as Much of Our Time as Possible?

2min

30.

The Slop Machine for Status

4min

31.

I Don't Do Ever Responsibility

2min

32.

Is My Thesis Completely Wrong?

6min

33.

The Story of Freedom of Speech

5min

34.

The Story That Makes Us Heroic

2min

35.

Human Rights in the Dark Ages

4min

36.

What's the Best Way to Send Us Away?

4min

Many of you know that I’ve been working on a new book provisionally titled ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. And so I thought it could be useful to me and interesting to you if I were to have a conversation with a few story experts and ask them questions such […]

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